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Real Estate Investing by Joe Manausa, MBA | February 8, 2011Today’s blog is a follow-up to last week’s post (The Return Of The Real Estate Buy And Hold Strategy) in which I promised to show a case-study of this principle. I have chosen to do this in two-parts. This week will show a real-world “already done” investment where a property was purchased during a buy [...]
Real Estate by Bill & Jackie Patterson | January 24, 2011Dealing with different personalities, points of view and agendas when working with any board or committee can be very challenging. People join the boards and committees of non profits, government, and other organizations for many reasons. Without these boards, the organizations would be in constant chaos; sometimes they are in constant chaos with the boards! [...]
Commentary by J. Lamar Ferren | December 20, 2009Following the Majority can really pay off, but does it always? The Weekend East Coast snow storm has hit VA hard and as I stepped outside I was greeted by 18 inches of it! This was definitely expected and people were talking about it all week. Last night there were Extremely long lines at the gas stations [...]
Real Estate Investing by Kyle Koller | November 23, 2009 
One of the many benefits of real estate investing is depreciation—the loss in the value of a building over time due to wear and tear, deterioration and age. Depreciation can only be applied to the building, not to the land. After all, land does not wear out over time. Luckily for real estate investors, building [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by J. Lamar Ferren | November 7, 2009 
A couple of days ago, a fellow blog contributor named Shae Bynes posted a great blog post regarding a 7 day plan for aspiring real estate investors. You should definitely check it out when you get a chance. With that said, I really liked one of the key aspects she mentioned in her post which [...]
Read the full article → Commercial Real Estate by Mike Farmer | April 22, 2008There are several trends I’ve seen emerging. One has to do with cyber-shopping — online buying seems to be a trend that will only increase. Nothing is ever certain in our fast-changing world, but the convenience of cyber-shopping seems to have taken hold as consumers gradually get over the distrust of online buying and break [...]
Commentary by Mike Farmer | March 11, 2008The other day I went to a listing appointment and gradually asked enough pointed questions and did enough research that I passed on listing the property. Upon first glance the lot seemed simple, but I noticed some odd layout to the side of it that made it unclear where the property lines ran. After doing [...]
Learn Real Estate by Milton B. Yates | February 17, 2008There are quite a few real estate investors, both beginner and veteran, that fail to understand the true benefits of soliciting sellers in small target areas. In fact, some investors aren’t exactly sure how to determine what areas to target. Here are some quick ideas for target area choices: We can assume that a great [...]
Learn Real Estate by Connie Brzowski | December 22, 2007Danger Will Robinson! The mister and I married in 1980. We were 19, freshly spit-out by the public school system and totally clueless about the real-life world of household finance. Our parents were lower middle class, Depression-era survivors with a ton of fear about anything deemed risky…and pretty much everything was considered risky. For the [...]
Learn Real Estate by Joshua Dorkin | October 2, 2007An investor on our forums recently posed a great question that others out there can learn from. I thought it would be a great idea to share with the rest of you. “Theres been a property at the end of my street that has been abandon for close to a year+ now. At no point [...]
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by J. Lamar Ferren | December 20, 2009Following the Majority can really pay off, but does it always? The Weekend East Coast snow storm has hit VA hard and as I stepped outside I was greeted by 18 inches of it! This was definitely expected and people were talking about it all week. Last night there were Extremely long lines at the gas stations [...]